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- [Typewritten copy of journal of Allan C. Brooks]
23. Beautiful calm day, very warm (Sunday)
to Chown Pt. [Point] saw a good many waders but no new
ones. Sanderlings are 95% young, took 2 Wander-
ing Tattlers.
24. [Rev. A.] Mackie went to Naden Harbor with Mr.
Abrahams on the "Western Hope". I went around
by Debatta N. [North] beach and Old Masset, no new birds
seen by either of us.
25. To Chown Pt. [Point] Shot a lone Pac. [Pacific] Golden Plover,
ad. [adult], Saw Red and Northern Phalecopes [Phalaropes], Wandering
Tattlers, 1 black-bellied Plover ad. [adult], both
Turnstones, Sanderlings, Western Sandpipers,
and Semipalm. [Semipalmated] Plovers, 2 ad. [adult] Parasitic Jaegers,
beating up the shore against the strong west
wind. Over 200 white-cheeked geese seen.
Large flock of Pintail going East.
26. Only shot 1 sharpshin, 2 jays and a junco.
Mackie saw three Pine Grosbeaks. Fine and warm.
27. In a boat hired from an Indian to the sand
reefs E. [East] of the inlet mouth. Fresh west wind.
Saw 2 long-tailed and 2 parasitic Jaegers, 3
surf birds, both Phalecopes [Phalaropes], Ruddy Turnstones,
Sanderlings and Western Sandpipers. Shot 2
Herring Gulls for identification, typical,
smithsonianus adults in moult, bill deep yellow,
eyelid yellow, iris bright straw yellow, wing
pattern quite normal. A night-hawk reported by
Britten and Lindsay. Hundreds of harbour seals,
many dark brown ones.
28. To Chown Pt [Point]. Not many shore birds except
Sanderlings. Saw 3 Pac. [Pacific] Golden Plover, 2 flocks
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